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Kepler's on a mission to discover 'Earths' 
usatoday.com | Fri, Mar 6
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NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft, Kepler, has blasted off aboard a rocket from Cape Canaveral.Rocketing into the night sky late Friday, Kepler, the space agency's long-awaited $591 million space telescope, opens a new era in planet detection. In its four-year mission, planetary sci...
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